Strawberry Picking Time

Well, if there is one thing we can do while we are waiting, it's pickin' strawberries. Ponchatoula is the South's strawberry capital and the gracious folks at Landry-Poche Strawberry Farms are wonderful. There strawberries are pesticide and insecticide free. They line their farms with martin houses and they eat all the little bad buggies all day long. Their motto is "eat as much as you can while you pick!"....and we do! So, where ever we move to, we will have a year's worth of awesome strawberry jam and frozen strawberries for smoothies. ( note the strange creature viewing the jam.....he's the quality control guy.....)

change is inevitable...in some way or another

I haven't been very good about blogging.....sometimes there isn't enough hours in the day. Sometimes I get so frustrated with circumstances that I don't want to blog about them. It's enough to just endure them, much less ruminate over them on a blog...so...that is one reason that I haven't kept up. We had a wonderful harvest last year and fall. But, as the year came to close it became obvious to our family that a move was inevitable. We would have to leave the small homestead that we had begun here.

Times are hard, and I don't mind downsizing....and I don't even mind a new adventure. I guess the hardest part of this move from our house is leaving my garden....not to mention dear friends that we have here. But, I can always keep up with my friends...they are never more than a phone call or email away. I can't, though...take my dirt with me. I have sweated and slaved over all that dirt. I have composted and cared for and spent MONEY on it....and I have to leave it. I can take my containers, but I can't take my raised beds.....big bummer. So, I am praying for a new spot where there will be a good place to put a garden in the ground. I don't think I can invest in the raised beds again. It is expensive. But, I can amend good draining soil and have a productive garden that way along with my self-watering containers.

Because our move is impending...I haven't even started any seeds this spring.. It's about to kill me. I feel like I am missing out on something...like I forgot to do something major this spring. But it would be impractical to start seedlings and try to move them, especially when we aren't sure where we are going to be.....

So.....I wait...

but in the meantime I can remember what a great summer we had last year...